Despots curb the written word because they fear its expressive power. They haven’t learned that what they should fear is not written language but, instead, the very impulse to write. It is more prevailing than literature, capable of surviving where art cannot.

Merrill Wagner’s interest in “materialism” seems to be, in fact, a desire to uphold painting’s natural link and allow the earth itself to reduce her works to a base state, a process she merely expedites.

The Moderators shows how the primacy of the algorithm leads to a “disruption” of the labor force itself. Riding on the back of neoliberalism, the gig economy represents a caste-like system in which the worker is valued even beneath a bit of code.